Kevin’s dad had started one of the largest insurance brokerages in eastern North Carolina, and Kevin was taking on more responsibility with every passing year at their office in Morehead City while his dad edged closer to retirement.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice

I only ask a brokerage.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business.

Kate Chopin -- The Awakening

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I got tired of the brokerage business and went away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

One evening paper even took Blomkvist at his word and filled two spreads with portraits of several of the brokerage houses’ most important players, who were in the process of buying up German securities.

Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Neeley worked as errand boy in a downtown New York brokerage house.

Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

These fictitious people in the zoo had a big board supposedly showing stock market, quotations and commodity prices along one wall of their habitat, and a news ticker, and a telephone that was supposedly connected to a brokerage on Earth.

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

She had not found any letters, junk mail or otherwise, from brokerage firms.

Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter’s Daughter

He was tall, broad, thick; his gold-rimmed spectacles were engulfed in the folds of his long face; his hair was a tossed mass of greasy blackness; he puffed and rumbled as he talked; his Phi Beta Kappa key shone against a spotty black vest; he smelled of old pipes; he was altogether funereal and archidiaconal; and to real-estate brokerage and the jobbing of bathroom-fixtures he added an aroma of sanctity.

Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt

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She was twenty-five and saw no future doing backroom work in a brokerage house.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld

Activities include stock brokerage, farming interests.

Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

They said their money was in a brokerage account they could see on a computer, but then it was gone.

Sharon Barrister not only had a safe-deposit box, she had a brokerage account in the amount of $326,000.85.

J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

He was later identified as a slave trader from another brokerage firm.

Alexs Pate -- Amistad

She took refuge, of all places, in the Loan Brokerage mat was the source of the Beaumont fortune.

Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man

The captain knew that before joining the House of Martinez slave brokerage, Shaw had been an agent of Pedro Blanco, owner of the Lomboko slave factory and the number-one dealer of African slaves in the world.

Alexs Pate -- Amistad

She only frowned, struggling to read the brokerage report.

J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

The seller of record, Mr. Shaw, whom I know quite well, and who, I might add, is the principal agent for the House of Martinez, a slave brokerage that deals almost exclusively in Africans.

Alexs Pate -- Amistad

Because what kind of random arrangement puts a club such as this up on the forty-second floor of a new office tower filled with brokerage houses, software firms, import companies and foreign banks, where private guards hired by various firms to patrol the corridors sometimes shoot at each other and where the man at the next table, with a bald dome, slit eyes and a jut beard, turning this way at last, is clearly a professional Lenin look-alike.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld

"Here’s his brokerage account.

J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

But I have millions of nearly untouched dollars in bank accounts and brokerage funds and life is so very fucking fair.